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Adnieva loses everything she holds dear and decides to leave her small village of Tiermerra in search of better things. At the top of her list is revenge. Naveen travels from city to city trying to conceal her ability, an ability she learned at a younger age at great cost to her. Divinity grows tired of the politics in the city of Legain and her father's hold over her. She decides to take things into her own hands and escape.

This first book of five begins in 1689 in Port Royal, Jamaica, where Atia Crisp is imprisoned, awaiting trial, while refugees from Strangewayes's plantation seek their new home. Guided by Capitaine la Roche, they face pursuit by the pirate hunter Big Dick and the perilous terrain of Bocas del Toro. Their future home of Sérénité hangs in the balance, complicated by the outbreak of war with France.

When Cate came home to an empty house and a "Dear John" note, she did what any woman would do - take the next flight to Ireland. Follow Cate as she picks up the pieces and finds her new path in life.

Desperately lacking the funds to treat her brother’s illness, Sophie decides to seek employment in the Duke of Windston. While sheltered, Sophie is loyal and hardworking, but when her brother’s life is in danger she decides to abandon her morality. What she never expected was to find the Duke’s secret, and in turn to be engulfed in a sinister legacy that threatened all she held dear. Was he her enemy or her ally?

Elena Hart arrives in London, bound for a new boarding school operated by her estranged uncle. A fresh start is exactly what she needs. But when strange things begin happening, things she can't explain, she begins to wonder if she has lost her mind. Until the night a strange girl appears in her room claiming to be a fairy from Neverland come to take her to the fantasy world at the request of its ruler. Skeptical, Elena refuses.

In the fall of 1961, a young girl eagerly anticipates the arrival of her baby brother, Ricky. But when he's born, the joy she expected is overshadowed by the unexpected tension that fills their home. Her mother, once lively and full of warmth, becomes distant, struggling to care for two children-especially a newborn with special needs. Raising Ricky is the poignant story of a family transformed, as a sister steps into a role far beyond her years to protect and care for her brother.

Pulses are racing in Holland, Washington, as it kicks off its "third annual" Lentil Festival. Jackie Norwood, former celebrity chef turned food festival judge, is excited to sample the town’s culinary creations—but she quickly discovers that Holland's lentil dishes come with a side of secrets and deception. Amid the half-truths and lies, she hears unsettling reports about a prom queen who mysteriously disappeared twelve years earlier. Holland’s friendly facade begins to crumble, revealing information the locals would rather keep buried.

When former celebrity chef Jackie Norwood travels to Haymes, Oklahoma, for the annual Honey Festival, she expects a few sticky situations—but not a murder. What was supposed to be a lighthearted holiday trip to her cameraman Greg's hometown takes a dark turn when Emily, Greg's sister, finds her ex-husband dead while he was attempting to steal her beehives. With Emily quickly becoming the prime suspect, Jackie is pulled into a hive's worth of hearsay, hostility, and hidden histories. Now, Jackie must uncover the truth and catch the real killer before someone else gets stung.

Step into a world of wit, wisdom, and wild misadventures in Fools, Frogs, & Folktales, a delightful collection of American short stories that celebrate the humor, quirks, and tall tales of generations past. This anthology gathers twenty timeless stories from literary greats like Mark Twain, O. Henry, and Jack London, alongside other masterful storytellers whose words bring to life the foolish, the clever, and the downright peculiar.

When photographs of singer Summer Jennings canoodling with her manager land on the cover of a gossip magazine, she runs home to Maine and ends up working as a maid at her family’s motel. A big movie is filming in town, and she gets to meet the leading man she’s crushed on since her youth. The director’s PA also catches her eye, and that’s just the beginning of her world turning topsy-turvy. Is Summer supposed to look back or ahead? Does letting go mean giving up?

Join Jackie Norwood, a down-and-out celebrity chef, as she judges the first gig on her comeback quest—a Texas Crab Festival cooking contest. This new venture takes an unexpected twist when she discovers that her archnemesis, Heather Curtis, is her co-judge. As if that weren’t enough to stir the pot, one of the competitors is Chef Benjy Hayes, Jackie’s long-lost ex-boyfriend.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, known for her best-selling mystery novels such as The Circular Staircase published in 1907, earned a reputation as “the American Agatha Christie” through the success of her novels. Yet Rinehart was also a WWI correspondent. After convincing her editor at The Saturday Evening Post to send her to the Belgian front, and armed with letters of introduction, her status as a well-known writer and member of the American Red Cross, as well as plenty of fearless initiative, she became the first American to report from the front.

At the Conway Mushroom Festival, former celebrity chef turned food festival judge Jackie Norwood looks forward to a weekend of gourmet delights and friendly competition. But the festivities take a dark turn when a controversial figure is found dead and Jackie's old friend Marshall becomes the main suspect. Jackie, along with her friends, stirs through secrets and suspicions in a race to find the real killer.

The Hadley family's new antique business is open and running well with Tilly, the red antique truck, as its mascot. Raelynn Hadley is happy to see her friend Tasha open a new bed-and-breakfast inn to accommodate the area's growing tourism, but a fire threatens to spoil all Tasha has worked for. Raelynn immediately gets to work sleuthing out who could be behind such an act of sabotage. Could it be the nearby resort owner, the daughter of the house's former owner, a neighbor, or a squatter who had been living in the house before renovations?

A mysterious murder at an abandoned military base. A carnival has rolled into town. The shocking connection forces her to choose between a dear friend and her new love.

Ravenna has spent the last moons preparing her people for war, and now it is time to fly. She knows that this is right, but facing Davorin has consequences that not even she could predict. Reunited with Miska, with Lenore, Ravenna realises that things are not the same as they were in the time she was away, and they may never be again. Was bringing the sylphs to war really the right thing to do? Or has she doomed them all?

Ravenna has returned to her people in order to save them from Davorins impending attack. But what she did not understand is that training a society of peaceful sylphs into the warrior Stormbringers from their distant past will ask more of her than she knew. She must make amends with her sister, the new Chosen Queen. She must play games of politics and tactics. And she must prove her worth to a people that never wanted her.

Olivia Penn is looking forward to spending time with her friends and family over the holidays in her cozy hometown of Apple Station, Virginia. The Christmas season’s spirit has sparked a new romance, and all seems merry and bright—until she is mistaken for a dead woman.

Advice columnist Olivia Penn’s cozy hometown of Apple Station, Virginia, is preparing for its annual fall festival and Halloween parade. Pumpkins, witches, and ghosts decorate the town as the leaves are changing colors and the crisp autumn air makes for perfect sweater weather. With the hint of a new romance in Olivia’s life, the spooky season seems anything but—until a lakeside picnic with a friend catches her in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Hadley family ranch is struggling, so Raelynn, her parents, and brothers decide to turn the old barn into an antique store. The only thing missing to go with the marketing of the store is Grandpa's old red truck, Tilly, that was sold several years ago. Now coming back up on the auction block, Tilly would need a lot of work, but Raelynn is sure it will be worth it—if only she can beat out other bidders and find out who stole Tilly after the auction ends. Hadley finds herself in the role of amateur sleuth, and the outcome could make or break the new family venture.